>Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:15:12 -0600 >From: Brian Bowers <bebowers@hotmail.com> >Source: PEARSALL-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Pennsylvania Piersols 7 > > >EVEN MORE JEREMIAH > >+ “LAND-OWNERS, 1774. … Jeremiah Piersoll, … Richard Piersoll, … John >Piersall, … Mordeccai Piersall …” History of Nantmeal in Chester County, Pa. >­ “History of Chester County, Pennsylvania,” by J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert >Cope,” Philadelphia, 1881, page 187. >+ Jeremiah Persal owned 66 acres, 2 horses, 3 cattle in West Nantmeal >Township ­ 1779 Tax Chester County Tax Rates ­ “Pennsylvania Archives,” >Series 3, Vol. 12, page 142. >+ Jeremiah Persal owned 66 acres, 2 horses, 3 cattle in West Nantmeal >Township ­ 1780 Tax Chester County Tax Rates ­ “Pennsylvania Archives,” >Series 3, Vol. 12, page 241. >+ Jeremy Persoll, 70 acres, 2 horses, 3 cattle. 1781 tax list for West >Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pa. “Pennsylvania Archive,” Series 3, >Vol. 12, page 393. Jeremiah, paid 2.3.6, page 511. >+ Jeremiah Piersol, paid 18.11 tax in 1785 West Nantmeal Township, Chester >County, Pa. “Pennsylvania Archives,” series 3, Vol. 12, page 762. >+ Jeremiah Peirsol was fined once by the Chester County militia, probably >for failure to appear for muster. No dates are listed but it is certainly >during the Revolutionary War. Quakers and Mennonites refused to serve for >religious reasons. Others sometimes failed to appear for business, >agricultural, health or personal reasons. There were also a few Tories who >favored the British. ­ “Pennsylvania Archives,” Series 3, Vol. 6, pages >195.. >+ Jeremiah Peirsol, private in 1st Class of Capt. John Graham’s Company of >the 1st Battalion of the Chester County Militia. No date is listed but the >roster falls among records from 1783 ­ “Pennsylvania Archives,” Series 5, >Vol. 5, page 501. >+Concerning a ferry on the Lehigh River in Northampton County, Pa.: “After >the Revolutionary war the Penns sold the ferry rights to Jeremiah Piersoll, >who employed Abraham Horn and Jacob Shouse as ferrymen. They, in 1790, >acquired the rights. Abraham Horn finally became the sole owner of the ferry >on the Lehigh river, which he conducted with profit for an umber of years.” >­ “History of Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the Grand Valley of the >Lehigh,” by William J. Heller, page 104. >+ Jeremiah Pearsel in Honeybrook Township, Chester County, Pa., in 1790 U.S. >Census. Household contains 3 males 16 and older, 4 males under 16, 5 >females. ­ “First Census of the United States 1790, Pennsylvania,” >Government Printing Office, page 66. >USGenWeb Archives. >+ “Agreeably to a determination had by Lottery, the following is a Return of >the Names of Persons who are entitled to Shares of Stock in the Corporation >instituted for the purpose of opening a Canal between the waters of the >Susquehanna and Schuylkill. … Piersol Jeremiah … Peirsal Jeremiah …” ­ The >Pennsylvania Gazette of Philadelphia, Feb. 1, 1792, as recorded by >Accessible Archives, Inc, at the Electronic Text Center of the University of >Virginia Library. >+ Jeremiah Piersol, received warrantee for 400 acres land in Northampton >County, Pa., on April 23, 1793 ­ “Pennsylvania Archive,” Series 3, Vol. 26, >page 152. >+ Jeremiah Piersol, received warrantee for 400 acres land in Northampton >County, Pa., on Aug. 13, 1793. Mordecai and Rebecca Piersol received similar >warrants on the same day ­ “Pennsylvania Archive,” Series 3, Vol. 26, page >153. >+ Mordecai Piersol, Jeremiah Piersol and others had filed a caveat against >Jeremiah Jackson and others concerning a piece of land for which both groups >held warrants. On Jan. 24, 1794, the Pennsylvania Board of Property ruled >that Jackson held the prior claim. “Pennsylvania Archives,” Series 3, vol. >2, page 93. >+ Jeremiah Peirsol charged with a misdemeanor, November 1795, Docket CCD-10, >page 150 ­ “Index to Quarter Sessions Records, Criminal Cases 1681-April >1837,” Chester County, Pa., archives, page 202. >+ Jeremiah Piersol in 1800 U.S. Census of Chester County, Pa. Household >contains 2 males under 10; 3 males age 10-16; 1 male age 16-26; 1 male 45 or >older; 1 female under 10; 1 female age 16-26; 1 female 26-45. Londonderry >and Honeybrook townships, page No. 716, 717, on USGenWeb and, without the >township information, “Pennsylvania 1800 Census Index,” edited by Ronald V. >Jackson, page 716. >+ Jeremiah Piersol, Junr., in 1800 U.S. Census of Chester County, Pa. >Household contains 1 male age 10-16; 1 male age 26-45; 1 female 26-45. ­ >Honeybrook and West Nantmell townships, page No. 720, 721, on USGenWeb and, >without the township information, “Pennsylvania 1800 Census Index,” edited >by Ronald V. Jackson, page 721. >+ Jeremiah Piersol on June 6, 1807, was among those appointed by Gov. Thomas >McKean to be commissioners to establish a lottery to raise money for the >state. (Note: This one of many state positions Jeremiah held that appear in >“Pennsylvania Archives,” Series 9.) ­ “Pennsylvania Archives,” Series 9, >page 2382. >+ Deed from John Scott and Ann, his wife, of Willistown Township, Chester >County, Pa., and Nathaniel Irwin and Elizabeth, his wife, of Honeybrook >Township, Chester County, to Jeremiah Piersoll of Honeybook Township, >yeoman. Jan. 8, 1808. Ann Scott and Elizabeth Irwin were sisters and heirs >of Richard Hunter, who died intestate, unmarried and without issue. Peter >Hunter bought the land from Jacob Piersol and Jacob and Elizabeth Cloud on >May 18, 1772. [See Chester County, Pa., Deed Book L3, pages 244-5.] The land >consisted of 299 acres adjoining land of Nathaniel Cunningham, James Graham, >James Skeen and Robert Jenkins and was sold for 1,345 pounds, 10 shillings ­ >Chester County, Pa., Deed Book L3, page 246. [Jeremiah was probably the >brother of Jacob Piersol, who sold the land to Peter Hunter.] >+ Deed of Jeremiah Piersol Sr. (executor) to Ann Otenkirk, 1809, Chester >County, Pa., Deed Book D3, page 482. >+ Deed of Jeremiah Piersol (executor) to Matthias Sheiner, 1810, Chester >County, Pa., Deed Book F3, page 354. >+ Deed of Jeremiah Peirsol (executor) to Jesse Laverty, 1812, Chester >County, Pa., Deed Book G3, page 360. >+ Jeremiah Peirsol, farmer, of Honey Brook, estate filed 1813, File 5921 ­ >Chester County Archives and Records Service, Wills & Administrations, >1714-1825 at www.dfs.chesco.org. >+ Will of Jeremiah Peirsoll of Honeybrook Township, Chester County, Pa., >dated Feb. 20, 1813 and proved June 19, 1813. To wife Elizabeth all real and >personal estate. After her death the estate is to be divided among my three >surviving heirs, who are not named. … Executors son-in-law Samuel Buchanan >and John Buchanan. ­ “Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825,” from >www.ancestry.com. >+ Will of Elizabeth Peirsol, widow [of Jeremiah], of Honeybrook Township, >Chester County, Pa. January 24, 1814, and proved. April 1, 1814. To daughter >Elizabeth, grand daughter Elizabeth Goheen, articles of household goods & >&c. Real estate to be sold and est. divided among my surviving children, >William, Jeremiah, Moses, John, Daniel & Samuel Peirsol, Sarah, wife of >Samuel Buchanan, Jane, wife of John Miller, and Elizabeth Peirsol. Daniel to >have £100 & Elizabeth £50 over and above their equal shares. To grandson >Lane Goheen the price of a Bible, & to granddaughter Hannah Goheen $4. To >grandson Jesse Buchanan $6. If son Jeremiah should never return his share to >be div. among rest. Executors: Samuel Buchanan & John Buchanan, tanner. >Wits: James Graham Sr., James S. Graham. Letters to John Buchanan, Samuel >being deceased. ­ “Wills: Abstracts and Administrations 1713-1825: Chester >Co, Pa.,” at USGenWeb Archives. >+ Deed of Jeremiah Peirsol Sr. (executor) to Samuel Buckhanan, 1816, Chester >County, Pa., Deed Book D3, page 145. >+ “Jeremiah Piersol, paternal grandfather of Lewis Piersol, was born in >Honeybrook Township, this county, on the old homestead, where he passed his >life and died. He was a federalist in politics, and engaged exclusively in >farming and stock raising. He married and reared a large family of sons and >daughters who became useful and respected members of society. On the home >farm in Honeybrook township Daniel Piersol (father) was born in 1788, and >reared and educated there.” ­ “Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of >Chester County, Pennsylvania,” by Winfield S. Garner, page 704. > >JOB >+ From section on Hampshire County, W.Va. “Among the earliest Germanic >settlers were father and son, Job and John Pearsall (Piersall), who arrived >between 1735 and 1738. … >“The Pearsall family’s religious connections are mysterious. No record is >known of their religious preference in Hampshire County. The family >apparently came from Chester Co., Pa., adjacent to Lancaster County. If we >may trust the scholarship of the author of the ‘The Seventh Day Baptists In >Europe and America’ (1910, Vol. 2, 981), we will note that three Piersalls, >Richard, Jeremiah and John, were related to the Conestoga congregation and >the Ephrata Cloisters. The connection of these Piersalls to Hampshire County >remains unclear.” ­ “Allegheny Passage; Churches and Families; West Marva >District Churches of the Brethren, 1752-1990,” by Emmert G. Bittinger, >Penobscot Press, Camden, Maine, 1990, pages 148-149. >[Warning: Some of this account seems to rely on questionable secondary >sources rather than original documents. No solid primary sources are cited >for the Pearsalls’ arrival date in Hampshire County or their link to Chester >County. I have found no primary document linking Job to Pennsylvania.] >+ “To be sold, 323 Acres of land, on the South Branch of Potomack, in >Hampshire County, Virginia, joining Lines with Romney, the County Town. >There is a Fort on the Premises, and some other Improvements; about 80 Acres >of clear Land; the Soil very rich. For Terms apply to Bryan Bruin, in >Winchester, or Joe Pearsall, living on the Premises aforesaid, who will shew >the same.” ­ The Pennsylvania Gazette of Philadelphia, March 14, 1765, as >recorded by Accessible Archives, Inc, at the Electronic Text Center of the >University of Virginia Library.